Cookbook store profile: Featuring Cook the Books in Auckland

February 26, 2014 by
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Recently we began to offer an EYB feature highlighting independent cookbook stores. Now you can discover (or get reacquainted with) a store near your home - or plan a new target destination when you travel. And to make this as strong a feature as we can, we're asking our members to help us. We already know of many great stores,… read more

The best cookbooks of 2013 by the experts

December 17, 2013 by
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Who knows cookbooks better than the owners of specialist cookbook stores? They stock and sell thousands of cookbooks and because their stores are focused on food and drink books, they are true experts.  They read the books, cook from them and then share their knowledge with their customers.  When shopping for cookbook gifts this holiday season, think about supporting your… read more

Cookbook store profile: Featuring Books for Cooks in London

December 15, 2013 by
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Recently we began to offer a new EYB feature highlighting independent cookbook stores. Now you can discover (or get reacquainted with) a store near your home - or plan a new target destination when you travel. And to make this as strong a feature as we can, we're asking our members to help us. We already know of many great… read more

Me and my cookbooks – November 2013

November 21, 2013 by
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We're hearing from a lot of you that you're enjoying meeting some of our EYB members through our Me and my Cookbooks Monthly feature. We'd love to introduce as many as we can -  If you'd like to be featured, just email us at [email protected]. Our featured EYB member this month is one of EYB's own - Susie Chang. Susie… read more

Cookbook store profile: Featuring Books for Cooks

November 18, 2013 by
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Photo of Tim White at Books for Cooks by Lucy Miller -----------------------  Last month we began to offer a new EYB feature highlighting independent cookbook stores. Now you can discover (or get reacquainted with) a store near your home - or plan a new target destination when you travel. And to make this as strong a feature as we can,… read more

EYB member wins world record!

November 10, 2013 by
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You may remember a post in our new feature My and My Cookbooks where Sue Jimenez, EYB member  Manycookbooks shared details of her collection.  She mentioned that she was applying to the Guinness Book of Records for the Largest Collection of Cookbooks in the USA/Canada.  Well, she did it!  You can see the  details on the Guinness site.  Sue also posted about it … read more

Me and my cookbooks – October 2013

October 28, 2013 by
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We're hearing from a lot of you that you've enjoyed meeting some of our EYB members through our Me and my Cookbooks Monthly feature. We'd love to introduce as many as we can -  If you'd like to be featured, just email us at [email protected]. Our featured EYB member this month is Sandra Thorman (EYB member sandyt1408). Sandra is from Australia,… read more

New EYB feature: Discovering independent cookbook stores

October 17, 2013 by
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It's a pretty safe bet that every one of our members would love to spend time exploring bookstores that specialize in cookbooks. And so we've decided to offer a new EYB feature highlighting those  stores. Now you can discover (or get reacquainted with) a store near your home - or plan a new target destination when you travel. And to… read more

Me and my cookbooks – September 2013

September 22, 2013 by
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We're hearing from a lot of you that you've enjoyed meeting some of our EYB members through our Me and my Cookbooks Monthly feature. We'd love to introduce as many as we can -  If you'd like to be featured, just email us at [email protected].    Our featured EYB member this month is James Glucksman (EYB member jlg84), currently resident… read more

Me and my cookbooks – August 2013

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At a time when the press relentlessly insists that no one is interested in cooking at home anymore, there is great joy in realizing that there are many others ( EYB members) who enjoy the creativity and pleasure of sharing good food. So we wanted to celebrate our members by regularly publishing vignettes about members and their cookbooks. If you'd… read more

Me and my cookbooks

July 24, 2013 by
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At a time when the press relentlessly insists that no one is interested in cooking at home anymore, there is great joy in realizing that there are many others ( EYB members) who enjoy the creativity and pleasure of sharing good food. So we wanted to celebrate our members by regularly publishing vignettes about members and their cookbooks. We're starting… read more

EYB’s favorite cookbook authors

July 6, 2012 by
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In a recent blog, we posted Food52's top 10 essential cookbooks. The posting inspired us to look at our own site and statistics. However, we ranked cookbooks by authors, looking at how many of our members owned a cookbook by a certain author. Here are the lists and our comments (links are to the authors' pages in the EYB library): EYB's top… read more

An ode to culinary bookstores

January 17, 2012 by
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My son and I spent the last few days in San Francisco, that gastronomic paradise, because I had a couple of book readings and a companion ticket burning a hole in my pocket.  What a splendid town for a pair of adventurous eaters!  We stuffed ourselves with tacos and dim sum and Bi-Rite ice cream, sushi and banh mi and… read more

Cookbooks or apps what will it be?

October 2, 2011 by
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There seems to be a lot of online debate in the last few days on what the future holds for cookbooks.  The most exciting article for us, because EYB was the focus and it was carried around the globe, was the Associated Press article by Michele Kayal.  One of our most enthusiastic members, Mary-Claire van Leunen does a great job promoting the benefits… read more

Cookbook awards season

May 29, 2011 by
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Just as January and February are movie awards months with the Golden Globes, BAFTAs and the Oscars so May and June are cookbook awards months. The season kicked off on Friday night with the prestigious James Beard Awards event in New York City. We have a list of all the nominees and winners. Next on June 2 the international cookbook awards will… read more

What makes a cookbook terrific or terrible?

December 6, 2010 by
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Susie has written a great article today in Publishers Weekly, titled "10 Things Every Cookbook Publisher Should Know".  Susie receives stacks of new cookbooks every week and she road-tests and reviews many of them.  So she really knows what works and what doesn't. read more

Susie’s picks for best cookbooks of 2010

November 21, 2010 by
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Our own Susie Chang was on NPR Weekend Edition Sunday this morning with some of her picks of the best cookbooks this year.  The full list is on the NPR website and it's also worth listening to the on-air story. We will again this year be compiling a best of the best list of 2010 list, for which we will be tracking down… read more

How many cookbooks do we need?

October 21, 2010 by
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Josh Ozersky writes in the current issue of Time magazine that no-one needs more than about four cookbooks.  What nonsense!  Nancy Baggett, author of numerous wonderful cookbooks, has responded on her blog and asked for comments. read more

Best 50 cookbooks of all time?

August 13, 2010 by
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The Guardian has today listed the first installment of the best 50 cookbooks of all time, as chosen by The Observer's Food Monthly. The top 10 will be published in this Sunday's Observer. See how many you have, and how many you disagree with. Inevitably the skew is British though there are nine Americans in the list and one Australian. Rather… read more

Best cookbooks of the decade?

December 11, 2009 by
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In addition to their best of the year cookbook list, Eat Me Daily has produced a Best Cookbooks of the Decade list. I'm not sure that I agree with all their choices - too many restaurant chefs in my opinion. They are all indexed on EYB though, with the exception of The Big Fat Duck Cookbook (that $250 price tag is putting… read more

NPR stories worth catching

December 7, 2009 by
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Susie was featured on NPR yesterday talking about her selection of the best cookbooks of 2009 - you can hear her discussion with Lianne Hansen on Weekend Edition. Another interesting piece on NPR recently was a discussion between Adam Gopnik of the New Yorker and Monica Bhide, author of Modern Spice, with Rebecca Roberts on Talk of the Nation. This is a fascinating analysis,… read more

Best cookbook of 2009 Lists

December 5, 2009 by
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It's that time of year when all the Best Cookbooks of the Year lists are popping up - ours is up on the Community page now. Our own Susie's list for NPR has been attracting lots of attention. Here are some other best of lists you might like to take a look at. It's interesting how little overlap there is… read more
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